Hello to everyone in the IGN community. This week I will be speaking about Pokémon Red and Blue as the random things I like.

Firstly I would like say that the Pokémon universe has been a big part of my life. I can still remember when I got my first copy of Pokémon blue on computer. It was on a floppy disc (do you remember those things). I spent hours on that game. I would wake up early sometimes 6:00 am or earlier to play. When I wasn't playing I was reading my Pokedex book or drawing my favorites like Sandshrew, Scyther and Articuno. I didn't have a game boy but wanted one so bad. It was around this time I started getting some real bad headaches. I later found out this was because I had a cancerous tumor growing in my head. I still remember the night before surgery, my dad bought me a game boy with Pokémon Red. After surgery I lost a lot of strength and after 3 months I was able to leave the hospital and return home. I couldn't go back to school yet so I spent a lot of time playing Pokemon. Pokemon was my rehabilitation.

The Games were remarkable. Hours of game play with a lot of variety. It was simple, go out and collect Pokémon and train them to be the best. I loved the Gym bosses and they all brought something new and exciting. Great to see Lt Surge who was saved by an Electric-type Pokémon and Sabrina with her psychic Pokémon. It was interesting to see what the next gym leader was like. Some really good puzzles were included that made you think, including finding the Poke flute to wake up a sleeping Snorlax and foiling Team Rockets plan at MT Moon or any of the other places the turned up. You had a rival always there to test you which I l thought gave something extra to the game.

What I really loved about these games was the Pokémon themselves. Each one being unique and it seemed there were no boundaries, you had ghost Pokémon , fighting Pokémon, fire Pokémon, bug Pokémon etc. this blew my mind as a kid and meant you had to think about which Pokémon you were using and you could not just rely on your strongest.I have gone back and played through Pokémon Blue again. Playing It now I can see the amount of amazing work that went into. Congratulations Pokémon Red and Blue for introducing us to a world of random kids waiting around to battle a stranger, A really descent music selection and mostly for introducing us the the start of an Epic line of games.

The Pokémon universe in vast. This is simply a blog to maybe get you thinking about things and let you know how I feel about it. Did you Play Red or Blue and if so did you love it? Anyway that's it from me but please let me know what you think.